Using building approvals data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the NSW Parliamentary Research Service has produced estimates of building approvals across all 93 NSW electorates. These estimates were derived using population-weighted correspondences. The map shows percentage change in the number or value of building approvals by comparing the 12 month periods ending August 2019...

In response to the global COVID-19 pandemic, the NSW government imposed public health restrictions to prevent the spread of the virus in the community. This issues backgrounder provides a chronology and summary of all public health orders made up to 31 October 2020.

This background paper assesses the political impact of the draft electoral boundaries for NSW, which were released on 9 November 2020. Submissions on the proposed boundaries are now open until 9 December, followed by another fortnight for comments on the submissions. The Electoral Districts Redistribution Panel will finalise the redistribution in the first half of...

In recent years, several countries have introduced new offences to criminalise coercive control in the context of domestic and family violence. This paper provides a brief overview and a list of key sources that discuss the issue of criminalising coercive control.

This paper focuses on the parliamentary and legal implications of governments using a form of AI: automated-decision making (ADM), which is deployed in automated decision-making systems (ADMS). It discusses the implications, presents key parliamentary case studies, and sets out recommendations from the literature on how Parliaments could respond.